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Tim Gell

Tim Gell, of Melville Heath, South Woodham Ferrers, was jailed for five and a half years at Chelmsford Crown Court

This man has been jailed for five and a half years after admitting a series of burglaries in Suffolk, Essex, the Metropolitan Police area and Cambridgeshire.

Tim Gell, of Melville Heath, South Woodham Ferrers, was originally arrested by Essex Police and was subsequently charged with burglaries at four homes in the county – two in South Ockendon on May 4 and two in Harwich on May 6 this year. In all four cases items of jewellery were stolen.

But Suffolk Police believed the 30-year-old may have been responsible for other crimes in Suffolk and officers from the Constabulary’s Operation Converter team were drafted in.

Gell went on to admit 23 further offences including ten burglaries in Suffolk – nine of them at homes in the county – ten further Essex offences, two home burglaries in the Metropolitan Police area and one house burglary in Cambridgeshire.

The offences date from April 2011 to May 2017.

Gell appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court, on Thursday, July 13 where he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.

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Istvan Becsei

Istvan Becsei pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving

This Hungarian lorry driver has been jailed after the HGV he was driving was involved in a fatal, head-on crash with a motorcyclist after travelling for nearly 700 metres on the wrong side of the road.

Becsei’s Mercedes HGV was negotiating a series of bends at about 3.30pm, and had been travelling for about 680 metres on the wrong side of the road, despite other drivers flashing him and “slow” signs on the tarmac which would have appeared upside-down and should have made it obvious he was travelling the wrong way.

On July 3, Becsei, of Fehervari-ut in Retszilas, Hungary, admitted causing death by dangerous driving.

At Cambridge Crown Court, Judge Gareth Hawkesworth sentenced Becsei to 32 months in prison, saying he would serve half of it in custody.

Becsei will also be disqualified from driving for 31 months and will need to reapply for his driving licence before driving in the UK. He also faces automatic deportation to a prison in Hungary.

And the ones who will soon be sentenced...

Robin Matthews

Robin Matthews

This "aggressive" paedophile has been found guilty of sexually abusing and grooming a child into becoming his consensual teenage lover.

Robin Matthews, 63, of Hobart Road, Cambridge, was convicted by a jury of 21 counts of child sex abuse on two young children going back as far as 1970 up until 1992 following a week-long trial.

The victims had felt too ashamed to come forward or tell anyone until 2015.

Matthews would forcibly take the victims and sexually assault or rape them, before giving them money or threatening to kill them if they told anyone.

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Matthews drove one victim to a beach where a hole was dug and threatened to put them in it.

The victims were as young as four years old and the abuse took place regularly for years.

Matthews sexually abused one victim until the age of consent, where the victim felt confused into thinking they were lovers and what they did was normal relationship behaviour.

Judge Farrell, who committed Matthews to custody following the verdict, added that Matthews will get a “very significant” sentence.

The court will decide his sentence on August 31.

Glyn Knowles

Glyn Knowles

This Cambridge headteacher admitted to grooming a young boy and attempting to meet him.

Glyn Knowles, 50, of High Street, Puckeridge, Hertfordshire, who was acting head of private Cambridge International School, was sacked immediately after he appeared before Hatfield Remand Court on Monday, July 17.

He pleaded guilty to attempting to meet a boy under 16 years of age following grooming, as the News exclusively reported.

Knowles used an app to contact who he believed was a young boy, but was actually a "false profile" used by a paedophile hunter. He was on summer leave at the time.

The communication with the "boy" continued for two days and Knowles arranged to visit the "teenager" in his house for “sexual activities”.

Knowles was arrested in The Causeway in Bishop’s Stortford when two police units swooped on the meeting location.